HTML5 Video is coming to Opera 10.5. Yesterday (or technically, last year--happy new year readers!) Opera released a new alpha build containing a preview of their HTML5 Video support. There's a number of details to note, not least that this is still an early alpha...

The first time I came across the term "deprecate" in programming was in Java. Before that I'd been using ADA, Pascal and [Visual]Basic.

For me "depreciating", as in "belittling/making less important" works just as well as "deprecating", as in "belittling/making obsolete". The difference is semantics, either way it points me to the fact the construct "we" are about to use may not be a good idea and may be destined for removal.